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“albert i berger”

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  • Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb

    Nuclear Weapons and the Transformation of Warfare

    by Albert I Berger ...
    Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons – and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the Atomic Age and the Cold War up through the present day, arguing that an understanding of the history of nuclear weapons is crucial to modern ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

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  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • High Noon in the Cold War

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Max Frankel ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[A] riveting retrospective examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (The Washington Times), from one of the giants of American journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Max FrankelFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryIn High Noon in the Cold War, Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    by Al Cimino ...
    The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations.This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Racing for the Bomb

    The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age

    by Robert S. Norris ...
    In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon. Until now, scientists have received the credit for the Manhattan Project’s remarkable achievements. And yet, it was Leslie R. Groves who made things happen. It was ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Survive the Bomb

    The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival

    Edited by Eric G. Swedin ...
    An examination of the American government's Cold War national defense measures and public communications regarding protection from nuclear disaster.The launch of Russia's Sputnik satellite in 1957 began an era where American citizens were haunted by fears of annihilation. Baby Boomers will remember Bert the Turtle, who instructed them how to "duck and cover." Survive the Bomb documents other U.S. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wizards of Armageddon

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Series series Stanford Nuclear Age Series
    This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Electronics

    by Sherman Hollar ...
    Series series Introduction to Physics
    Although most people would scarcely be able to make it through the day without using some type of electronic device—computers, televisions, and MP3 players, to name a few—the inner workings of such devices remain a mystery to many. This insightful volume examines various components, such as electron tubes and semiconductors, that have been essential to electronics over the years, as well as the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    by Capitalism one0one ...
    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Lindsey Michael Banco ...
    Series series New American Canon
    He called the first atomic bomb “technically sweet,” yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he also thought of the line from the Hindu epic The Bhagavad Gita: “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the single ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Bomb

    Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist

    by S. S. Schweber ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Physics
    How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to createIn 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities. When the Cold War followed, they were confronted with political demands for their loyalty and McCarthyism's threats to academic freedom. ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Threshold of Nuclear War

    by Alice George ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD